> And the government is currently passing a law that will allow the police to arrest anyone filming their intervention (journalists included
That's blatantly wrong.
Only ifbthe intent is to harm the police officers, as explicitly stated in the law, and an amendment specifically excludes their police ID number from the protection.
You won't ever get condemned thanks to this law (which is useless anyway, because filming policemen and diffusing their identification info to harass them was already illegal[1], like any other kind of harassment).
But, it will allow cops to arrest you. The famous French Lawyer Maitre Eolas gave an juridical explanation on this here https://twitter.com/Maitre_Eolas/status/1328974533768994818) (this is in French unfortunately, and not being well versed in law-related words in English, I cannot translate it :/). But what I said holds: you'll be in jail for up to 48h («garde à vue») without seeing a judge or any possibility of appeal.
> excludes their police ID number from the protection.
Good joke, almost no policemen wear it, even though it's mandatory… [2]
That's blatantly wrong.
Only ifbthe intent is to harm the police officers, as explicitly stated in the law, and an amendment specifically excludes their police ID number from the protection.